Postoperative Analgesia in Neonates and Infants Using Epidural Chloroprocaine and Clonidine.

Anna Gibbs Stephani S Kim Grant Heydinger Giorgio Veneziano Joseph Drew Tobias

Published in: Journal of pain research (2020)

With the recognized limitations of a retrospective study, these preliminary data demonstrate the safety of adding clonidine to an epidural infusion of 2-chloroprocaine in neonates and infants less than 12 months of age. Future studies are needed to determine its analgesic efficacy compared to 2-chloroprocaine alone and the optimal clonidine concentration for postoperative epidural infusions.

Keyphrases

spinal cord
patients undergoing
neuropathic pain
low birth weight
low dose
pain management
electronic health record
postoperative pain
case control
deep learning